Shadows in the Brain Export

@article{citeulike:2319899, abstract = {The aims of the present study were to investigate whether the processing of an object shadow occurs implicitly, that is without conscious awareness, and where physically within the human brain shadows are processed. Here we present neurological evidence, obtained from studies of brain-injured patients with visual neglect, that shadows are implicitly processed and that this processing may take place within the temporal lobe. Neglect patients with lesions that do not involve the right temporal lobe were still able to process shadows to optimize object shape perception. In contrast, shadow processing was not found to be as efficient in neglect patients with lesions that involve the right temporal lobe.}, author = {Castiello, Umberto and Lusher, Dean and Burton, Carol and Disler, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {2319899}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://jocn.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/6/862}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14511539}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=14511539}, journal = {J. Cogn. Neurosci.}, keywords = {perception, shadows}, month = {August}, number = {6}, pages = {862--872}, posted-at = {2008-02-01 16:02:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Shadows in the Brain}, url = {http://jocn.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/6/862}, volume = {15}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2319899 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2319899 N2 - The aims of the present study were to investigate whether the processing of an object shadow occurs implicitly, that is without conscious awareness, and where physically within the human brain shadows are processed. Here we present neurological evidence, obtained from studies of brain-injured patients with visual neglect, that shadows are implicitly processed and that this processing may take place within the temporal lobe. Neglect patients with lesions that do not involve the right temporal lobe were still able to process shadows to optimize object shape perception. In contrast, shadow processing was not found to be as efficient in neglect patients with lesions that involve the right temporal lobe. IS - 6 JF - J. Cogn. Neurosci. EP - 872 TI - Shadows in the Brain VL - 15 SP - 862 KW - perception KW - shadows AU - Castiello, Umberto AU - Lusher, Dean AU - Burton, Carol AU - Disler, Peter PY - 2003/08/01/ UR - http://jocn.mitpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/6/862 ER -